Diary, Robert Lewis

Containers:

Box 28, Folder 1796.03.28

Creator:

Lewis, Robert, 1769-1829

Scope and content:

Diary. A.D. 53 pages, including backs of covers. No longer bound together. Mostly a day by day of happenings on his plantations--crops, sales of fish, plowing, burning brush, clearing ground, etc.--trip to Mt. Vernon with [Rental] money for G.W., and expenses along way--at Mount Vernon "flattered [Wm.] Pearce [manager] extremely with his good management."--visits of relatives and friends--prices paid for various goods--fishing--payment of accounts for the president--elections at court house--"Visited Mrs. Haney who lays ill, and wrote her Will agreeable to her request..." [distant kinswoman of G.W.'s - see letter dated June 26, 1796, Writings, XXXV, 99]--death and burial of Mrs. Haney--news of the Jay treaty--collecting [rents] and paying debts for G.W.--birth of a daughter June 18 and death a month later--detailed bargain with Mr. Fisher "to new Iron" a wagon--July 6, "Gave the negroes a holliday." Autograph document, bound volume, first pages of book torn out. Date on original catalog card appears [1796][Mar.]28-July 18.

Names:

Lewis, Robert, 1769-1829

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